Government Oversight

Judiciary Democrats: Republicans are Complicit in Efforts to Obstruct Justice with Release of Nunes Memo

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee, issued a joint statement following the release of the “Nunes memo,” a set of misleading talking points drafted by the Republican staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in an attempt to discredit the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and undermine... Read more »

Nadler Requests Judiciary Committee Immediately Hear from FBI Director Wray on Nunes Memo

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), sent a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), to request an emergency briefing with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray, on his concerns regarding the “Nunes memo,” a set of misleading talking points drafted by the Republican staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that House ... Read more »

BREAKING: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPUBLICANS SHUT DOWN NADLER’S REQUEST FOR SESSION TO DISCUSS “NUNES MEMO” SOURCE MATERIALS

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WATCH HERE After Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted to release the so-called “Nunes memo” yesterday, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), today called on Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), to hold an executive session to allow every Member of the House Judiciary Committee to review the original source materials on which that memo is supposedly based in ord... Read more »

Nadler on Report That President Trump Tried to Fire Mueller

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump ordered White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II, to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller in June of 2017: “The New York Times report that President Trump planned to fire Special Counsel Mueller over the summer is deeply disturbing. Wit... Read more »

Nadler & Cummings Urge DOJ Ig to Investigate Attempts to Discredit FBI Investigators & Weaken FBI Independence

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Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG), to request an investigation into attempts to weaken the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) independence and d... Read more »

Democratic Committee Leaders Urge DOJ & FBI to Investigate Fake Public Comments

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Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) today requested the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to expand a previous... Read more »